Conversation VIII – From Early Childhood Centres to Art Galleries
April 23rd, 2024
Thompson Rivers University faculty member Cory Jobb and ECPN Pedagogist Teresa Smith, in conversation with ECPN Co-Director Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, discuss a two-year collaboration in Interior British Columbia. This inquiry with educators and children involves ongoing exposure to and dialogues with exhibitions at the Kamloops Art Gallery. In the conversation, Cory and Teresa share their pedagogical processes of speculation and world-building with children and art across two distinct exhibitions.
Teresa Smith is an ECPN Pedagogist in Kamloops. Teresa aims to cultivate collaborative relationships with educators, families, children and her pedagogist colleagues, to think otherwise about children and childcare, and to co-build a community where all children can flourish.
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, ECPN Co-Director, is a Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Her writing and research contribute to the Common Worlds Research Collective (tracing children’s relations with places, materials and other species) and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory (experimenting with the contours, conditions and complexities of 21st-century pedagogies).
Cory Jobb is an assistant professor in early childhood education at Thompson Rivers University. His research draws on children’s geographies and critical environmental early childhood education to rethink pedagogies of place within landscapes shaped by anthropogenic harms such as waste and climate change.
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